Award Profile

Cory Booker believes that the American dream isn’t real for anyone unless it’s within reach of everyone. Booker has dedicated his life to fighting for those who have been left out, left behind, or left without a voice.  Booker grew up in northern New Jersey and received his undergraduate degree from Stanford University. At Stanford,…

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Tags Share The full list of honorees for the 2024 RFK Journalism Awards can be found below. High School Journalism The Hidden Homeless Naperville Central High School Nathan Yuan College Journalism and Grand Prize America After Roe Carnegie-Knight News21 Housed at Arizona State University, in partnership with University of Oregon, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Florida International University,…

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Tags Share The 2001 RFK Book Award was presented to James Allen for Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America and George Packer for Blood of the Liberals. James Allen’s Without Sanctuary is a chilling collection of photographs of lynchings that bring the horrors of the past to life. James Allen is a collector who uncovered…

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Tags Share The 1984 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award was presented to Roger Rosenblatt for Children of War. Based on a Special Report Rosenblatt wrote for Time magazine, Children of War reveals the beliefs, hopes, and fears of children caught in the fury of war through on-the-spot interviews with children in five war zones: Northern…

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Tags Share High School Print The Drug Crisis Nighthawk News Magazine of First Flight High School Kayla Hallac, Maren Ingram, Maggie McNinch, Taylor Newton, Kira Walters, Joey Krieg, Olivia Sugg, Fiona Finchem High School Broadcast Book Ban Eagle Nation News of Prosper High School Mithra Cama College Journalism Allies Welcome Columbia University Shakeeb Asrar, Tavleen…

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Tags Share High School Print and New Voices for Justice Award Unlivable Wages The Globe of Clayton High School Owen Auston-Babcock High School Broadcast The Talk Hillcrest High School Jaela Burris College Journalism Being Black in Lincoln: The Series The Lincoln Journal Star Trinity Saez, Victoria Baker, Zach Wendling, Jaqueline Martinez, Evelyn Mejia, Dillon Galloway,…

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Tags Share Domestic Print Winner “Torn Apart: Immigration in the Era of Trump” Staff, The Associated Press Few events captivated the public in 2018 as powerfully as the many scenes of children separated from their parents at the U.S. — Mexico border. Some would be put in cages, others hauled into court for immigration proceedings…

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Tags Share High School Journalism Black Students Nearly Two Times as Likely to be Suspended as White Peers in the ICCSD Iowa City High School’s The Little Hawk Nina Lavezzo-Stecopoulos College Journalism State of EmergencyCarnegie-Knight News21, Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication News21 Staff Domestic Print Exploited New York Times Michael H. Keller,…

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Tags Share High School Print and New Voices for Justice Award Bigoted Badges: How Hate and Violence are Embedded in Kentucky Law Enforcement Training duPont Manual High School’s Manual RedEye Satchel Walton, Cooper Walton, and Payton Carns High School Broadcast The Pandemic Program Prosper High School’s Eagle Nation News Grant Johnson, Kacey Boston, Cristina Folsom,…

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